#2001 g8

[andasignificantbreakfast]

To raid that school, the Diaz barracks*, and to make up fake evidence were not...isolated, vi*lent...rude agents. No. Were the highest ranks of Italian P*lice. / You’re digging your heels in those Genoa facts. / Yes, yes, I’m really digging in them. / I understand you, Salvo. You feel betrayed by the institution you most trusted. / No. No, no, no. I don’t FEEL betrayed. I WAS betrayed. Like all those people in the Police enforcement who has always worked with greatest honesty. / ... / I never dreamt of use vi*lence even with the worst criminal. NEVER! I never dreamt of - oh, MAKE UP FAKE EVIDENCE! OOOH!

IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO 5.01 Giro di boa

*actually, “Diaz” was the name of the school, while the barracks was in Bolzaneto.

[arretoskore]

(drawing of Zerocalcare)

GENOVA, 19-20-21-22 JULY 2001 today marks the 20th anniversary of what Amnesty international defined as the worst suspention of democratic rights in a western country since the WWII. During those days the italian police acted with extreme violence and disregard of human rights, and using tear gas and illegitimate weapons against protesters, placing evidence and blatantly lying about the events. On the 20th of July Carlo Giuliani was killed by the police, who shot him in the face not one but two times, and then proceeded do ride over his body with their van. They tried to lie about what happened, fortunately a journalist managed to photograph the whole event. During the night between 21st and the 22nd the Diaz School, where a lot of protesters where sleeping, was raided by the police, who started beating the people who were sleeping without any criteria, using as an excuse the fact that they were looking for members of the Black Blocs. Hundreds of people ended up at the hospital, some of them never completely recovered.  They tried to plant two molotovs as evidence that the raid was justified.  I read a lot about the facts of the 2001 G8 during these last months and I’m not gonna put everything that happened in a tumblr post but I think it’s important to talk about it still today, because it’s been 20 years and not one cop has spent one day in prison.  it’s been 20 years and my country has introduced the crime of torture only 4 years ago, after being repeatedly condemned by the UN and the EU for not having it.  It’s been 20 years ad the police still has almost complete impunity in any instance of police brutality.  It’s been 20 years and of the 350 and more cops that stormed the Diaz school we know the names of only 125, because there was no law requiring identifying numbers on police uniforms. It’s been 20 years and there still isn’t one.  I was 3 during those days, I obviously don’t remember them, but I heard about what happened for the last 20 years: the violence, the ideas, the endless trials and the maddening lack of consequences for the cops who tortured and killed.  It’s been 20 years and sometimes it seems nothing’s changed.